Mearsheimer said of the disastrous [[NATO_war_in_Ukraine#2023_Spring-Summer_counteroffensive|2023 Ukraine summer offensive]], "it should have been obvious to [[Ukraine]]’s [[Western civilization|Western]] cheerleaders beforehand that the [[blitzkrieg]] they embraced was doomed to fail and that it made little sense to push Ukraine to launch it."<ref>[https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/bound-to-lose Bound to Lose: Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive], [[John Mearsheimer]], Sept. 2, 2023</ref> | Mearsheimer said of the disastrous [[NATO_war_in_Ukraine#2023_Spring-Summer_counteroffensive|2023 Ukraine summer offensive]], "it should have been obvious to [[Ukraine]]’s [[Western civilization|Western]] cheerleaders beforehand that the [[blitzkrieg]] they embraced was doomed to fail and that it made little sense to push Ukraine to launch it."<ref>[https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/bound-to-lose Bound to Lose: Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive], [[John Mearsheimer]], Sept. 2, 2023</ref> |